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The Problem of Autocephalia of the Polish Orthodox Church in the Context of the Cold War
Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 37 No. 1 (2021), pages: 126-138
Publication date: 2021-06-30
https://doi.org/10.48261/pis213706
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Abstract
After World War II, highly-placed Soviet officials in collaboration with the leadership of communist Poland made decisions regarding Poland’s Orthodox Church. As a result of discussions between the Polish and Soviet authorities, it was decided in 1945–1946 that the Moscow Patriarchate would give the Polish Orthodox Church autocephalous status. Next, both sides of the agreement determined the conditions and circumstances in which this would take place. On the eve of the Pan-Orthodox Council, which was supposed to take place in Moscow in July 1948, the Soviet leadership determined that a separate voice for Polish autocephaly would bolster the position of the Russian Orthodox Church during the voting. Less than three weeks before the planned council, through one act the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church received the Polish Orthodox Church’s renunciation of autocephaly, which it had been granted in 1924 by the Patriarch of Constantinople and gave the Orthodox Church in Poland autocephalous status, which had previously been treated as canonical. In subsequent years, the Patriarchate of Moscow, pressured by Soviet officials, fought for the recognition of the new status of the Polish Orthodox Church by the Eastern patriarchs.
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